biography of Surasi KUSOLWONG (1965)

Personal data


Birth : 1965 - Ayutthaya, Thailand
Sex : M
Nationality/Affiliation : Thailand

Address

Bangkok, Thailand

Representatives

Galleria Continua – Via Arco dei Becci, 1 – San Gimignano SI, Italy


Education

1980 – 1982 : College of Fine Arts – Bangkok, Thailand
1982 – 1987 : Silpakorn University – Bangkok, Thailand
1990 – 1994 : Hochschule fur Bildende Kunste Braunschweig – Brunswick, Germany

Work


Categorie and medium


Sculpture-Volume : Installation
Photography :
Performing Art : Performance

Subject

Body

Works

Happy Berlin (free massage)
Date of creation : 2001
Medium : Photograph
 
Free-For-All (Massage)
Date of creation : 1999
Medium : Performance
 
Masculine Biomaterial Form
Date of creation : 1989
Medium : Etching
Size : 66 x 87 cm
 

Solo Exhibitions (Selected)


Solo exhibitions

2004

Palais de Tokyo – Site de Création Contemporaine – Paris, France
2004 – 09/19/2004

2001

02/2001 – 03/2001

Lombard-Freid Fine Arts – New York NY, United States
2001

1999

Smells Like Art
About Studio/About Café – Bangkok, Thailand
1999

1996

Private and Public
Bangkok University Art Gallery – Bangkok, Thailand
1996

Group Exhibitions (Selected)


Art shows / fairs

2002

Art 33 Basel
Messe Basel – Basel BS, Switzerland
06/12/2002 – 06/17/2002
Represented by : Galerie Art & Public – 35 rue des Bains – Geneva GE, Switzerland

2001

Art 32 Basel
Messe Basel – Basel BS, Switzerland
06/13/2001 – 06/18/2001
Represented by : Galerie Art & Public – 35 rue des Bains – Geneva GE, Switzerland

The Armory Show 2001
Piers 88 & 90 – New York NY, United States
02/23/2001 – 02/26/2001
Represented by : Lombard-Freid Fine Arts Gallery – 531 West 26th Street – New York NY, United States

2000

LISTE 2000 – The Young Art Fair, n° 8
Basel BS, Switzerland
06/20/2000 – 06/25/2000


Festivals

2001

ARS 01
Kiasma Museum of Contemporary Art – Helsinki, Finland
09/30/2001 – 01/20/2002


Group exhibitions

2005

Expérience de la durée – 8ème Biennale d’Art Contemporain de Lyon
Lyon, France
09/12/2005 – 12/31/2005

2003

Biennale of Ceramics in Contemporary Art
Attese Onlus – Milan MI, Italy
09/27/2003 – 11/09/2003

Poetic Justice – 8th International Istanbul Biennial
Istanbul, Turkey
09/20/2003 – 11/16/2003

Echigo-Tsumari Art Triennial 2003
Japan
07/20/2003 – 09/07/2003

2002

Shopping: A Century of Art and Consumer Culture
Tate Liverpool – Liverpool, Merseyside, United Kingdom
12/20/2002 – 03/23/2002

P_A_U_S_E – Kwangju Biennale, n°4
Kwangju, South Korea (Republic of Korea)
03/29/2002 – 06/29/2002

Ouverture
Palais de Tokyo – Site de Création Contemporaine – Paris, France
01/29/2002 – 04/21/2002

2001

Surasi Kusolwong – Wang Du
Fri-Art – Fribourg FR, Switzerland
02/2001 – 03/2001

Berlin biennale für zeitgenössische Kunst, n° 2
Berlin, Germany
04/20/2001 – 06/20/2001

2000

Leaving the Island
Pusan Metropolitan Art Museum – Pusan, South Korea (Republic of Korea)
10/02/2000 – 11/27/2000

The Sky is The Limit – 2000 Taipei Biennial
Taipei, Taiwan, Republic of China
09/09/2000 – 01/07/2001

Man + Space – Kwangju Biennale, n° 3
Kwangju, South Korea (Republic of Korea)
03/29/2000 – 06/07/2000

The gift of Hope
MOT Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo – Tokyo, Japan
2000

Arte all’Arte
Fondazione Cassa di Risparmio – Volterra PI, Italy
2000

1999

Cities on the Move, n°4
Louisiana Museum for Moderne Kunst – Humlebæk, Denmark
1999

Cities on the Move, n°6
Bangkok, Thailand
10/09/1999 – 10/30/1999

Beyond the Future – Asia-Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art, n° 3
Queensland Art Gallery – Brisbane QLD, Australia
09/09/1999 – 01/26/2000

Cities on the Move, n°5
Hayward Gallery – London, United Kingdom
05/13/1999 – 06/27/1999

1998

Cities on the Move, n°2
CAPC Musée d’Art Contemporain de Bordeaux – Bordeaux, France
1998

La Ville, le Jardin, la Mémoire
Villa Medici – Rome, Italy
1998

Cities on the Move, n°3
P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center – New York NY, United States
1998

Every Day – Biennale of Sydney n° 11
Museum of Contemporary Art – Sydney NSW, Australia
09/18/1998 – 11/08/1998

1997

Cities on the Move, n°1
Wiener Secession – Vereinigung bildender Künstler – Vienna, Austria
11/26/1997 – 01/18/1998

Bibliography (Selected)


On the artist


Exhibition catalogues

2001

2. Berlin Biennale
Berlin, Germany
2001
ISBN : 3896110977

2000

Man + Space Kwangju Biennale
Publisher: Kwangju Biennale Press – San 151-10 – Kwangju, South Korea (Republic of Korea)
2000
ISBN : 8987719049


Periodicals

2004

STAPLE Polly – Reviews
in: Frieze n° 83 p. 91
London, United Kingdom
05/2004

Legals